"There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them."

-- W. H. Auden

#Parades Quotes #Ends Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.”

Source : Carlo Rovelli (2007). “Quantum Gravity”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”
“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .”
“Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.”
“If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.”
“Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk”
“There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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